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A Health Checkup of U.S. Churches. www.hartfordinstitute.org/church_checkup.html. A Christian Nation of 350,000 Congregations. 80% say they are sure there is a God & belong to a faith group. 75% of Americans identify as “Christian”. 65% claim an affiliation with a congregation. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A Health Checkup of
U.S. Churches
www.hartfordinstitute.org/church_checkup.html
A Christian Nation of 350,000 Congregations
80% say they are sure there is a God & belong to a faith group
75% of Americans identify as “Christian”
65% claim an affiliation with a congregation
49% are claimed as adherents by all congregations
40% tell surveys they attend weekly
20% of Americans actually attend weekly
A Christian Nation?
Faith Groupings Congregations Adherents Percent of Population
Catholic 20,589 58,927,887 19.1%
Evangelical and
Conservative Protestant
191,112 50,013,107 16.2%
Mainline Protestant 77,760 22,568,258 7.3%
Other Faiths 11,661 6,667,542 2.2%
Latter-day Saints 14,393 6,267,771 2.0%
Black Protestant 17,754 4,877,067 1.6%
Orthodox Christian 2,551 1,056,535 0.3%
Total* 344,894 150,596,792 48.7%
Denomination Churches Adherents % of Pop
Southern Baptist Conv. 50,816 19,896,279 6.4%
Non-denominational Churches 35,496 12,241,329 4.0%
Assemblies of God 12,258 2,944,887 1.0%
LCMS 6,040 2,270,921 0.7%
Churches of Christ 12,584 1,584,162 0.5%
Christian Ch’es and Ch’es of Christ
5,293 1,453,160 0.5%
Seventh-day Adventist 5,665 1,194,996 0.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, TN) 6,100 1,109,992 0.4%
All Other Evangelical and Conservative Protestants
56,860 7,317,381 2.4%
Total Evang. & Conserv. Prot. 191,112 50,013,107 16.2%
Denomination Churches Adherents % of Pop
United Methodist Church 33,323 9,860,653 3.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
9,846 4,181,219 1.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 10,487 2,451,980 0.8%
Episcopal Church 6,794 1,951,907 0.6%
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
5,243 1,560,572 0.5%
United Church of Christ 5,225 1,284,296 0.4%
Other Mainline Protestant 6,842 1,277,631 0.4%
Total Mainline Protestant 77,760 22,568,258 7.3%
Not Dying… But Changing
Getting Older…
Less Appealing To The Young?
Getting Both Larger…And Smaller
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MEGAProliferation
More Solitary… And More Selective About Their Friendships
The Rise of Nondenominational and Functionally-Independent Churches…
Independent Churches Are Distributed Evenly Across the Country
Networks Taking The Place Of Denominations?
Less Vital…?
Churches Have To Be Wiser…And Less Wistfully Nostalgic
www.hartfordinstitute.org
www.faithcommunitiestoday.org
www.uscongregations.orgwww. youthandreligion.org
www.rcms2010.org www.uscongregations.org www. thearda.com
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